Moon 240,000 miles away. Come on man!

People who make these topics never understand the basic technology that tells us how the world works. It's easy to make huge wild statements when you don't know anything.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9266723

Basic technology. Ready. Me. Put gas in car. Makes car go. We put fuel in rocket ship enough for 10000 miles to go 440000 miles. And hope somehow to be hurled throw space at over 3000 miles and hour and slamm on the brakes and land on the moon. I have some and in alaska im selling

Quoting: Trutbetold11 14786143

Perfect example of the OP proving AC 9266723's statement.

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I have never seen such great lengths to protect lies. Buzz aldrin at a dinner. Fact. Was ask what was it like to land on the moon. He had to be excused and was found crying uncontrollaby outside. Cant live with the lie. Not to mention him punching a man in the face for asking him. Google it. Buzz punches man in face

OP you would like the film Apollo Zero. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet. The moon landing was one of the last things I actually believed from the government. How silly of me. Now I don't believe shit.

Well, if you consider the cost of actually going to the moon versus the cost of just pretending to go to the moon, especially when the overall point of it was to bankrupt Russia in a never-ending arms & space race of one-upmanship, option B begins the pull ahead as a favorite. You don't need to go there when you control the media and have enough armed forces personnel around willing to go that extra mile for their country.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366

until you also consider the fact that Russia would have know if it was faked and all the money was spent paying contractors that built equipment capable of going to the Moon and back. Why not use it?

Quoting: Weasel_Turbine

You mean they couldn't have just blasted a rocket off into space, shown video feeds purportedly of that rocket's contents (live humans whom we know), then launched the rocket off into space away from our eyes while some ex-military tromped around a quarry after they got done filming a freefall inside a plane for the zero-G shots?

Well, if you consider the cost of actually going to the moon versus the cost of just pretending to go to the moon, especially when the overall point of it was to bankrupt Russia in a never-ending arms & space race of one-upmanship, option B begins the pull ahead as a favorite. You don't need to go there when you control the media and have enough armed forces personnel around willing to go that extra mile for their country.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366

until you also consider the fact that Russia would have know if it was faked and all the money was spent paying contractors that built equipment capable of going to the Moon and back. Why not use it?

Quoting: Weasel_Turbine

You mean they couldn't have just blasted a rocket off into space, shown video feeds purportedly of that rocket's contents (live humans whom we know), then launched the rocket off into space away from our eyes while some ex-military tromped around a quarry after they got done filming a freefall inside a plane for the zero-G shots?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27636366

When those vids show live interaction with mission control and reactions to current sports scores, no. The vids also show current weather on the Earth that could only have been obtained by a craft on the way to the moon.

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Without reading a book or being told the great lie. You look outside and can see its only 30 miles above us. Noway we went there period. You want to solve the debt. Crisis? Everyone pay 50 bucks to look through the huble telescope at the stuff we supposed left on moon. Noway would they let us have that access. The gig is pretty big

Quoting: Truthbetold11 14786143

The Hubble has looked at the Moon. Its max resolution at that distance (not the 30 mile nonsense you pulled out of your arse but the real distance) is at best a football field per pixel. You would need a telescope with a mirror a few hundred feet across to see what was left on the Moon.

The moon must be closer than we are told cause if it was 240,000 miles away in deep dark space....how come we can see the moon during the day. We can't see the stars but we can see the moon during the day.

Wasn't the real difficulty with going to the moon supposed to be calculating the right trajectory, not running out of fuel? Because of the vacuum of space and the lack of big things between us and the moon, after they escaped our atmosphere and further such that the Earth's pull was less on the vehicle they wouldn't need to burn fuel at all they could just coast? So the difficulty was in calculating the right trajectory to make up for whatever arcane drifts or wave effects they think need adjusting for? But then to park the think a quarter a million miles away perfectly such that it lands in stable orbit of the moon is just.... a bit much.

And, if there's effectively no gravity acting on the craft after it gets away from the Earth a little ways such that it doesn't need to burn fuel most of the way, then what's that force that keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth, which the craft is traveling in the whole time and which is strong enough to hold the moon while the craft in comparison has negligible mass?